To refresh my (as it turns out, rather poor) poker skills for the Cookout, I've been playing poker online for a bit. Since we've done this with Monopoly before and it was just more fun to play with CGers than with all them strangers, I wanted to ask if any of you guys wanna meet up online for some poker practicing. It's free, and it's possible to create private tables. There are explanations for the rules too for those who've never played. And they offer different varieties of poker too.

I mean sure, everybody can learn poker at the cookout, but personally, I prefer to come "prepared", and I figured maybe others do, too.

So, anyone interested?

Intentionally not posting a link yet cause I don't want it to look like spam. >_> And if nobody's interested, there's no reason to do so anyway.

Please don't move this to OT, it's meant for Cookout people first and foremost, though anybody else may of course join in. Just... you know. *cough*

Heh. Don't stress Cookie, we're not playing strip poker or playing for real money. Your wallet and honor are safe at poker night.

Five Card Draw - each player dealt five cards. Betting begins. Each player returns up to three cards (four if you show you are holding an ace) and gets new cards. Bet again. Winner is the one with the best hand.

Seven Card Draw - like five card except you get seven cards, and MUST discard at least two.

Five card Stud - two cards are dealt face up. Bet. One card face down (you can look at your card), bet. One more down, bet. One more up, bet.

Seven card stud - like five card except it's: two up one down/bet, one down/bet, one down/bet, one down/bet, one up/bet

Kings game - Complex. Will show, it's not on poker sites.

Texas Holdem - players each get two cards face down. Bet. Three cards displayed face up (community cards), bet. One more up (comunity), bet, one more up (community), bet.

Omaha - Good one for experienced poker players to steal the moeny from inexperienced ones. Four cards down each. Bet. Three up (community cards), bet. one up (community card), bet. One up (community card), bet. The best hand is taken from: three cards on the table and two in your hand. So if you have three queens in your hand, you can only use two of em.

Blackjack: probably not play due to dealer requirement.
Caribbean poker - see above.
hold 'em - see above.

Screw your Neighbor - each person puts four bets out. Everyone is dealt one card. Starting to the left of the dealer, you may choose to hold onto your card, or trade with the person to your left. When it gets to teh dealer, dealer can either hold the card or trade with the top of the pile. Loser pays one bet into pot. Continue until only one person has any bets left.

Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."

Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it."Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"

If we play strip poker, you'd all end up naked, and I'd end up with all the clothing. I'd sell the clothing, and then you'd have to be naked throughout the cookout. I'm cooking during the cookout and hot grease may splatter your naked bodies. Thus, no strip poker.

Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."

Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it."Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"

You fan the cards out facedown in a circle on the table. For your turn, you draw a card. The rules change a little from game to game but the way I usually play is:

2 is you (pick someone to drink)
3 is me (drink)
4 is ho's (women drink)
5 is waterfall (everyone stands and starts drinking. you can only stop when the person to your right stops, so it sucks to be sitting to the right of the person who drew the card cause everyone drinks before you and you have to keep going)
6 is dicks (men drink)
7 is heaven (last person with their hands up in the air drinks)
8 is date (you pick another person to drink with you)
9 is bust a rhyme (say a phrase, the next person in the circle has to say another phrase that rhymes with it, until someone fails and they drink)
10 is categories (name a category, e.g. NHL teams. each person has to say something in that category, e.g. Avalanche, Rangers, Oilers, until someone fails and they drink. no repeats.)
Jack is never-have-I-ever
Queen is Questions (see the question game in forum games - if you answer a question you drink)
King is, you pour part of your drink into a cup in the center. Person who gets the last King has to drink it. Extra fun when people are drinking different things.
Ace is rule - you make a rule. Popular rules are: when I put my thumb on the table, everyone else has to, last one drinks; there is a little green man sitting on your drink, and every time you drink you have to take him off and put him back on; you can't say "drink"; everything you say must include swearing; you can't point; etc. Failure to comply with the rules results in a penalty drink.

Another popluar card assignment is social, since rules vary from game to game I'm not really sure where to put it.

Now that is Kings. That we will not be playing. Because the cookout is dry. Although hypothetically you could play with some sort of soft drink.